With the stock market near its all-time high, few investors are terribly worried about their portfolios right now. But that makes it the best time to take steps to panic-proof your portfolio in preparation for the next financial crisis.

Led by the health insurance reform law, a flurry of drug and food recalls, key medical breakthroughs and plenty of layoffs and lawsuits, 2010 proved to be an exciting -- if not always positive -- year. Here's our list of the year's biggest health stories.

Johnson & Johnson expanded its recall of Acuvue TruEye contact lenses fivefold back in October, but only announced the news in Japan, where most of the recalled lenses were sold.

Was Johnson & Johnson aware of problems with its Children's Tylenol months before the recall? The House Oversight Committee has invited an FDA commissioner and Johnson & Johnson chairman to a hearing next week to address this and other questions surrounding the massive recall of children's medicines earlier this year.

In a warning letter to J&J's DePuy Orthopaedics, the FDA says it is illegally marketing its TruMatch CT scanner and Corail Hip System. This is the latest in a series of problems at J&J, which include a big children's Tylenol recall.

Crisis management experts say the time is now for Toyota to do everything possible to reassure the public that it's fixing the problems -- and that consumers should not lose faith in the carmaker's reputation for quality. But the company has miles to go to get to that point.